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Keep the audit log writing after an admin clears entries - #46

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Problem

"Clear test entries" (/admin/logs/clear, mode test_only) rewrites log.txt via os.replace(). The RotatingFileHandler keeps its stream open on the old, now unlinked inode, so every audit entry written afterwards is silently lost until the process restarts. I reproduced this in isolation with a bare RotatingFileHandler.

Changes

  • The file swap now happens under the handler's lock, and the handler's stale stream is closed so the next write reopens the new file.
  • The all mode truncates under the same lock.
  • /admin/logs re-derived the log path as <app dir>/logs/log.txt and ignored DOOROPENER_LOG_DIR; it now uses the module-level log_path the handler writes to.

Tests

tests/test_audit_log_clear.py: after clearing in each mode, a new audit entry is visible in /admin/logs; /admin/logs reads the same file the handler writes. Verified the tests fail with the stream-drop removed. Full suite passes (111), ruff clean.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Admin logs now display entries from the configured log file. Clearing all logs or removing only test-mode entries preserves subsequent audit entries.
    • Audit entries written while a test-mode clear is in progress remain visible afterward. Lines that cannot be parsed are retained during test-mode clearing, so clearing test entries does not remove other log content.

'Clear test entries' replaced log.txt with os.replace() while the log handler
kept its stream open on the old inode, so every later audit entry was silently
lost until restart. The swap now happens under the handler lock and the stale
stream is dropped so the next write reopens the new file. /admin/logs also reads
the configured log path instead of a hard-coded one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Admin log reads use the configured log_path. Log clearing locks the audit handler during file operations. Test-only clearing replaces the file and resets the handler stream. Tests cover log visibility after clearing and during a concurrent write.

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Audit log behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configured path and synchronized clearing
app.py, tests/test_audit_log_clear.py
Admin log reads use log_path. Both clear modes lock the audit handler during file operations. Test-only clearing replaces the file and resets the handler stream. Tests check log visibility after clearing and during a concurrent write.

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The supplied context shows the admin log read and clear paths covered by targeted tests, with no identified behavior that needs to block merging.

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Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 15619

The change restores audit-log visibility and coordinates clearing with the active writer. Administrator authentication and CSRF protection remain intact. No introduced or materially worsened security risk was identified within the documented single-worker deployment.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected resource is the application instance’s configured audit file. Administrator reads now expose that file’s existing audit fields rather than a separately reconstructed default path. The request supplies a clear mode, not a filesystem path, and the change introduces no tenant-selection or cross-service authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Both endpoints require administrator session authority, and clearing additionally validates a session-bound CSRF token using constant-time comparison. Administrator authority is established through password verification or the configured OIDC administrator-group branch. These controls are unchanged by the PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Holding the shared writer lock across the complete replacement prevents an intervening same-process audit write from being discarded. Resetting the stream after replacement prevents subsequent writes from remaining attached to the unlinked inode. Ordinary pre-replacement failures leave the original target in place, while finally blocks release synchronization; crash durability is not established.
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- Line 1532: Update the test-only log replacement flow around
`_attempt_handler.acquire()` to acquire the lock before reading `log_path` and
hold it through filtering, `os.replace`, and stream reset, so concurrent
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The lock only covered the swap, so an audit entry written after the file was read
but before the swap was dropped. The lock is now held from the read through the
swap and stream reset. Test fixture restores TESTING via monkeypatch.

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35-52: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Initialize this test with a non-default log directory.

The module-local client fixture imports app without setting DOOROPENER_LOG_DIR. If that variable is unset, the old hard-coded route reads the same default file, so the marker assertion can pass. The endswith("log.txt") assertion does not check the directory. Set a non-default directory before app loads and assert that the route returns the marker written there.

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Review comment at @tests/test_audit_log_clear.py around lines 35 - 52:
Update the module-local client fixture used by
test_admin_logs_reads_the_configured_log_file to set DOOROPENER_LOG_DIR to a
non-default directory before importing app. Keep the marker write through
app_module.log_attempt and verify the route returns that marker, ensuring the
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- Around line 35-52: Update the module-local client fixture used by
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… old hard-coded one

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Nitpick fixed in the latest commit: the log-path test now points log_path at a file in a non-default temp directory that only the test writes to and asserts /admin/logs returns its marker. Verified it fails against the old hard-coded path.


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Sloth-on-meth merged commit 7d5b5fd into main Oct 7, 2026
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